This book provides different perspectives on the concept of children’s rights, including policy, educational, and children’s perspectives. It examines how the crucial ideas of the Convention on the Rights of the Child  are respected and implemented in 14 countries in five regions of the world. It looks at early childhood education, children’s participatory rights, and at how these rights are promoted and guaranteed in different countries. It explores the professional practice of education and its complexities, challenges and dilemmas, as well as the role of play, and of listening and participation. The book advocates children’s rights today, arguing for its vital importance, in the best interests of the children. In doing so, it furthers the understanding of children’s rights and spreads knowledge about the Convention, as a means of celebrating its 30th anniversary.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) comprises the potential to change the livesof children to the very best. It may exalt children from the position of marginalized citizens to the centre of policies all over the world. Even though the concept of children’s rights is omnipresent, the respect for children’s rights must be discussed. While the Convention brings the new perspective of children as citizens to the world, there are still challenges in its application. The book interrogates challenges in understanding and applying children rights and offers possible answers to these challenges. The ratification process itself, does not guarantee that children’s rights are respected. While all adults should take responsibility for implementing the UNCRC in everyday life, Early Childhood Education should give opportunities for children to learn and live their rights.

early childhood education in Latin America
rights of early childhood in Uruguay
child rights in Poland
child rights in the USA
play in children’s everyday lives in Croatia
child rights in New Zealand
child rights in Japan
children’s rights in professional practice
applying the UNCRC to early childhood education and care
child rights in Argentina
Anthropocene
UNCR

• Front Matter
• Time for Play? Researching the Right to Play in Children’s Everyday Lives with Time Use Diaries
• Children’s Human Rights in ECE in the Context of a Changing Polish Reality
• Taking Care of Our Children: 30 Years of Child Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand
• The Right of the Child to Family, Identity and Culture
• Educational Perspectives
• Young Children’s Rights to Provision, Participation and Protection: Challenges of Applying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to Early
• Childhood Education and Care in Australia
• Caring to Educate and Educating to Care in Early Childhood Education in Spain
• Rethinking Possible Dilemmas: Reflections on How We Understand the Rights of a Child Today in Argentina
• Children’s Participatory Rights at Risk? Perspectives from Norway: Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care
• Berit Bae
• Policy Tool for Keeping Minimum Standards of Children’s Rights in Korean International Development Cooperation
• Eunhye Park, Nayong Kim, Hee Kyoung Nam, Inyoung Kim, Sunhwa Park, Jieun Kim et al.
• The Provision, Protection and Participation of Children’s Rights in Professional Practice
• Front Matter
• Early Childhood Education and Care Policies in Latin America: A Pending Debt
• Mercedes Mayol Lassalle
• Child Rights in the United States: Dilemmas and Questions
• Judith T. Wagner
• Implementation of the Rights of the Child at the Level of ECEC Institutions: Policies and Practices in North Macedonia
• Alma Tasevska
• Advances and Pending Challenges of Uruguay in Guaranteeing the Rights of Early Childhood
• Gabriela Etchebehere Arenas
• Rethinking Children’s Rights in Chinese Early Childhood Education Provision: Progress and Prospects
• Peng Xu
• Children’s Perspectives
• Front Matter
• Time for Play? Researching the Right to Play in Children’s Everyday Lives with Time Use Diaries
• Katarina Bogatić
• Children’s Human Rights in ECE in the Context of a Changing Polish Reality
• Ewa Lewandowska
• Taking Care of Our Children: 30 Years of Child Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Glynne Mackey, Diti Hill-Denee
• The Right of the Child to Family, Identity and Culture
• Ivana Visković
• Educational Perspectives
• Front Matter
• Young Children’s Rights to Provision, Participation and Protection: Challenges of Applying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to Early
• Childhood Education and Care in Australia
• Ann Farrell
• Caring to Educate and Educating to Care in Early Childhood Education in Spain
• Concepción Sánchez-Blanco
• Rethinking Possible Dilemmas: Reflections on How We Understand the Rights of a Child Today in Argentina
• Analía Mignaton
• Children’s Participatory Rights at Risk? Perspectives from Norway: Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care
• Berit Bae
• Policy Tool for Keeping Minimum Standards of Children’s Rights in Korean International Development Cooperation
• Eunhye Park, Nayong Kim, Hee Kyoung Nam, Inyoung Kim, Sunhwa Park, Jieun Kim et al.
• The Provision, Protection and Participation of Children’s Rights in Professional Practice

Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Adrijana Višnjić-Jevtić

Kindergarten Knowledge Center for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Alicja R. Sadownik

Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Ingrid Engdahl

Book Title
Young Children in the World and Their Rights

Book Subtitle
Thirty Years with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Editors
Adrijana Višnjić-Jevtić, Alicja R. Sadownik, Ingrid Engdahl

Series Title
International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68241-5

eBook Packages
Education, Education (R0)

Hardcover ISBN
978-3-030-68240-8
Published: 21 April 2021

Softcover ISBN
978-3-030-68243-9
Published: 22 April 2022

eBook ISBN
978-3-030-68241-5
Published: 20 April 2021

Series ISSN
2468-8746

Series E-ISSN
2468-8754

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XI, 273

Number of Illustrations
2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

Topics
Early Childhood Education, Human Rights, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education